Yukiko Kinjo

Yukiko Šrejmová Kinjo successfully completed her studies at the Ryukyu University in 2000, where she majored in voice and music studies. In 2002 she won a scholarship for voice studies in Italy, sponsored by the Japanese Government. In Italy she continued her studies at the Milan Music Academy, and from 2003 also at the Parma Conservatory with Professors Lucetta Bizzi a Eugenio Furlotti. She has lived in Prague since October 2005, where she continued her studies with Prof. Jiří Kotouč at the Prague Conservatory. She made her debut at the Prague Estates Theatre in 2008, singing the part of Zerlina (Mozart - Don Giovanni). Since 2009 she has appeared as Adina (Donizetti - L’elisir d’amore) at the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, in the role of Papagena (Mozart - Die Zauberflöte) as a guest at the Prague State Opera, as the First Wood Nymph (Dvořák - Rusalka), Mozart’s Zerlina, Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), the Flower-maiden (Wagner - Parsifal) and as Amora (Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice) she introduced herself at the National Theatre in Prague. In November 2012 Yukiko Šrejmová Kinjo received an engagement as a soloist at the Opera of the National Theatre.